The news that Meeker was losing its independent, family-owned pharmacy, saddened me.
I’m old enough to remember being able to call my family doctor at home late at night or on the weekends when we had a medical crisis and getting personal “telemedicine” the old-fashioned way. And there was rarely a bill that followed. I’m old enough to remember stories about former postmaster Dale Hallebach hand-delivering late packages on Christmas Eve. And in more recent…